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You’re not wrong on this. Being able to give 100% guaranteed valid plans would require cloud providers to publish full specifications of their APIs, including
by jen20 5y ago
You’re not wrong on this.
Being able to give 100% guaranteed valid plans would require cloud providers to publish full specifications of their APIs, including (most importantly) the domain of each property relative to possible values of all the other properties of a resource.
Given that most cloud providers struggle to publish an API where even the data types for properties are correct, this does not seem realistic today.
Another way to achieve a good result would be an accurate “dry run” API from the provider, but these are also often inconsistent when they exist, and make planning painfully slow.
- nickjj 5y agoYeah, it's not an easy problem to solve. But it is worth pointing out because you can't trust plans for figuring out if something will work or not. However they are great for letting you know what's about to get CRUD'd, which in itself is very valuable to help prevent a set of issues but it doesn't guarantee victory in the end.